Freethought Film
The Center for Inquiry produced an excellent series on American Freethought. With the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism, this is the time to get educated about the critical and historical…
Category: American History
Thomas Paine Day
Would there be a country named the “United States of America” without Thomas Paine? After all, he is credited with first using that name for the new nation. George Washington…
December 2, 1859
This is a day we all should remember the execution of a tragic character in history, a failed leader, a religious fanatic, yet … someone who changed American history: …
One Nation Indivisible?
For a divided nation, it’s either a wonderful day or an awful one. Celebration on one side, and disappointment, even anger, on the other. Carol and I hug and share…
Christian Declaration
A Declaration of Preference?: If Christians Wrote the Declaration of Independence If America was actually founded to be a “Christian Nation,” as Christian Nationalists claim, wouldn’t we expect the founding…
Above the Tempest
Can we get beyond or above the “clash of opinions” in politics (or religion)? In 1821, a young woman from Scotland visited the still relatively New Republic and published letters…
Washington’s Farewell
George Washington was the first President (and, yes, a slaveholder), and maybe among the first of the American Founders to see what happens when political parties fuel the factionalism that…
